“For they themselues shew of vs, what maner of entring in we had vnto you, and how yee turned to God from idols, to serue the liuing, and true God,”
1611 King James Version (KJV)
1:9 For they themselves - The people wherever we come.
1Th 1:9 For they themselves. The people "every place" (1Th 1:8). How ye turned to God from idols. Most of them had been heathen. See the accounts in Ac 17:4.